filed in Internet, Privacy on Sep.28, 2008
Should we worry about legitimate sites being the main target for exploits? Yes! Many of the trusted web sites we visit today can be your worst nightmare. As more people become accustomed to Web surfing and downloading software and multimedia, legitimate Web sites have become the favorite targets of hackers.
It’s important to surf with protection [...]
filed in Internet, Software on Aug.23, 2008
Phishing is a well known way to entice you to visit a Web site that can exploit your browser and plant malware on your machine. Web content filtering isn’t enough to combat malware deployed over the Web because content filters usually analyze entire sites and not specific pages. So if malware is hosted on a [...]
filed in Computers, Software on Aug.09, 2008
Don’t trust software to be secure. Vista DEP (Data Execution Prevention) isn’t doing a good job protecting Vista users. It’s only partially enabled and if switched fully on too many applications fail. I find this absurd that applications would fail if DEP is totally enabled. It’s not what the doctor ordered.
It’s just another day of [...]
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